Salon Series Tackles ‘Why America is World’s Biggest Jailer’
School of Communication and Media takes on the criminal justice system Wednesday evening, October 9, 2013.
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The U.S. locks up more people than any other nation in the world, making it the planet’s largest jailer.
On October 9, Merrill Brown, Director of the School of Communication and Media at 精品成人福利在线 University, will moderate a discussion of the policies that created the U.S.’s high incarceration rates and what can or should be done to responsibly reduce the rates of those incarcerated at a film screening and discussion titled,聽Crisis in American Criminal Justice System: The Cycle of Injustice From Arrest and Incarceration to Re-entry.
Brown will be joined by three notable panelists:
- Dawn Porter, Montclair resident and producer/director of the award-wining HBO documentary Gideon’s Army, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2013.
- , Director of the ACLU’s Prison Project, an expert in the use of solitary confinement and conditions in “Super Max” prison.
- , former Bronx Public Defender and a professor of Justic Studies at 精品成人福利在线 University.
RSVP is recommended at The screening of a clip from聽鈥淕ideon鈥檚 Army鈥澛爓ill start the program.聽The event is free and open to the public. In the Conference Center Ballroom, University Hall, 7th Floor, 8-9:30 p.m. Call聽Emily Eldridge at聽973-979-7933聽with questions or email聽Stephanie Wood听补迟听woods@mail.montclair.edu.
This free Salon Series Event is presented by the School of Communication and Media, 精品成人福利在线 University, and with the generous support of Jim Leitner.